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| Digging a mine under Fort Hill, with a cotton car as protection from the enemy's bullets. |
To-day our regiment
was at the front. The rebels kept pretty quiet; they are learning to behave
very well. In fact they might as well lie low and save their powder.
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| The Yankee Lookout. |
Our men have been
employed digging a ditch leading up to Fort Hill, when they intend tunneling
and blowing up the fort. The rebels, however, have got range of the men
digging, and have fired upon them. The answering Yankee trick was to shove a
car of cotton bales over the trench toward the fort, while the men worked
behind it. This served a good purpose for awhile, till the rebs managed to set
it on fire; not to be out-done, our boys pushed forward another car well soaked
with water. Another Yankee device was contrived—a tower, ten or twelve feet
high, with steps inside running to the top, where was hung a looking-glass in
such a position as to catch and reflect, to a man inside the tower, the
interior of the enemy's fort and rifle pits, and thus every man and gun could
be counted. This latter contrivance, however, did not last long; it became too
conspicuous and dangerous for use.
A report creeps into
camp that Johnston is coming with fifty thousand men to raise the siege, but I
do not believe it. We have often heard that Richmond had fallen, but it
continues within the confederate lines. If the army of the Potomac does not
soon take it, Grant will march us there and seize the prize from them.
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| Sheltered from the sun, but not the enemy's shells. |
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